Broadly, the organization of Correspondence can be identified in three separate ways—you can organize by Date, Type of Correspondence, and who is being written to or who is doing the writing. Within Hane’s collection, all three of these types exist, and we’ve been thinking about which method may be most useful for organizing his large selection of items or whatever is the most efficient or useful. Generally, I would say who the correspondence was to would be the best fit for organizing correspondence in the archive itself. When you’re looking at a lot of what Hane received, there are several different types, from media to personal letters, and a large array of dates, but who he’s talking to can broadly outline these other two categories and help us achieve further understanding there, in which we would find less, if we decided to use a different method, as I believe it would be less fluid. Furthermore, using dates would eliminate some understanding due to the chaotic nature of Hane’s work – I don’t think ordering it in such a way benefits us beyond looking at possible publishing timelines, and I believe that Type would also suffer due to the nature of Hane’s correspondence having such a wide scope – we would have far too many categories and you once again turn it into a many-box issue, such as the issue we have in it all being archived in mostly random boxes. I think it would work best with us primarily focusing on correspondent and using the other two as subfields in analyzing how to compartmentalize Hane’s writings and correspondence